RE: [slim] Re: Extrnal USB drive fast enough?

2005-11-14 Thread Stuart Hickinbottom
trnal USB drive fast enough? Thanks gents, looks like a go. I just hope that my old laptop has usb 2... -Dan -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this th

Re: [slim] Re: Extrnal USB drive fast enough?

2005-11-12 Thread Pat Farrell
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 18:59 -0800, dwc wrote: > Thanks gents, looks like a go. > I just hope that my old laptop has usb 2... Old laptops often are poor performers in many dimensions. Slow disks, slow memory, slow CPUs, in addition to slow video, USB 1.1 etc. But if you already have it, give it a t

[slim] Re: Extrnal USB drive fast enough?

2005-11-12 Thread dwc
Thanks gents, looks like a go. I just hope that my old laptop has usb 2... -Dan -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18

[slim] Re: Extrnal USB drive fast enough?

2005-11-11 Thread Michaelwagner
dwc Wrote: > I just want to make sure using one of these external IDE to USB 2.0 > converters is going to be fast enough. I have not used this one, so I can't comment on it specifically. But in general, USB 2 hard disks are plenty fast enough to stream music for one to several clients. If you w